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Virgil, the most famous of Roman poets, has fired the imaginations of millions for centuries and is considered, as T. S. Eliot pointed out, the classic poet. In this full length biography, renowned writer and poet, Peter Levi discards all appropriations and myths to reveal Virgil's untold life. Levi writes vividly and passionately of Virgil's close friendships with Horace and Ovid, his vision of Augustan Rome, and his influence on modern civilization and art equal in measure only to the teachings of Christianity.

A definitive, lyrical biography of a poet who has served as chief inspiration for European literature over the centuries.